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We’ve been conditioned. Year on year expectations have been lowered by Ashley. Also supported by the media narrative. That’s why you get people like Tubes saying “12th place is a good achievement with this squad”. Imagine saying that when David Moyes has just taken West Ham (the team we thumped on the first day of the season) to 6th place and Europe. We also have a new breed of fans going to games. The majority of fans who were here pre-Ashley have given up. The majority of people still attending or voicing their support are probably young enough to not really know what life was like pre-Ashley. It’ll take years to recover from Ashley. Even if PIF get in control and spend millions. The retail, stadium, facilities, academies all need a tremendous amount of time and money.

Same again next season. It’s already happened two years in a row. Told before the season we’ll aim high. But throughout the season the expectations will be lowered and the thick support will lap it up. Going into a game at home to Barnsley and being told how difficult it will be, facing such an illustrious side. Some dreadful signings, might strike gold again with an Willock, ASM or Wilson. Will probably end up with more Carroll, Kraft, Hendrick and Lewis. Another opportunity to see utter shite like Shelvey and Dummett in the team. About three/four years after they should have been peddled. Turgid football, an inevitable collapse of form at some point during the season and excuses, excuses, excuses. We’ll probably just scrape survival, again. Might even get to a cup quarter final if we get some lucky draws against lower league opposition. But we’ll get knocked out whenever we face anyone half decent. The good times are here. We’ll even get the honour of watching West Ham and Leicester in Europe. Probably Scunthorpe winning the FA Cup.

Sad really, because he clearly still has it.

Yup. A clear dive and they do fuck all about it. He won’t be retrospectively banned either, like he should be. Quite pleased Bale’s goal stood in the end as a bit of karma, even though I have no idea how that wasn’t disallowed either. VAR has ruined my enjoyment of football. I’ve not celebrated/enjoyed a goal properly in ages, always sat waiting for the game to kick off expecting it to be ruled out for something pathetic.

More chance of him playing for Arsenal regularly next season. They’ll not spend any money and Arteta has already shown he’s willing to bed in younger players. We probably could sign him though, but we’ll never place a bid close enough.

Lille winning the league and Juventus missing out on CL would be a great evening.

And the cycle starts again... https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/who’s-actually-excited-for-next-season.1551388/ Gonna win the league next year spending a record £600m in League One.

Only 4 goals from Vardy’s record of 11 consecutive games for a midfielder playing in a team in the bottom half.

Tubes, man. How do you get things so wrong? @HaydnNUFC you’ll love this tubes snippet.

3 points behind relegation specialist Big Sam. They were only 2 points from safety when Big Sam took over. Relegated by 13 points.

How the fuck have Leicester fucked that up? Awful.

About 500k per place I think, across the whole league.

If we win today, Fulham will be relegated on 28 points. Is that the lowest points tally for the team in 18th? It seems incredibly low. Assuming WBA don’t beat Leeds.

They’re certainly allowed to ask the PL to ‘thoroughly investigate’ piracy. As they have done multiple times pre the proposed takeover. That letter is no different. BeIN will probably be able to produce several other letters from years ago which say a similar thing - proving there is no anti-competition element to it and they’re only concerned about the piracy. That’s not directly comparable though - if Asda were selling fake Coca Cola in their stores, would Coca Cola be able to convey concerns then? I think they would. They’re protecting their own brand. That’s not what the letter says. Edit - all of this is with the caveat of they are my own opinions and I’m by no means an expert. Hopefully one of the legal chaps on here will be able to shed some light on it.

They’re not asking them to do anything. They’re suggesting it’s in the clubs’ interests to protect their own commercial revenues by asking the PL to consider the impact of Saudi piracy. It certainly doesn’t ask the clubs to block the takeover, nor does it ask them to join a secret group.

What difference does it make? BeIN are the business partner who have been directly affected by the piracy. They have every right to raise a concern with it. I just don’t see anything wrong with that letter. They’re not even calling for the clubs to block it.

That’s not true though, is it? The letter isn’t asking anyone to collude. It’s a fair letter raising concerns about KSA’s piracy and suggesting clubs should ask the PL to ensure the deal is correctly interrogated, to protect their own revenue. It’s no different to NUFC asking the PL to take action against the top 6.

It’s always related back to us. I’ve never seen a thread on RTG without a Mag mention.

They’ve won 1 in 10. Not sure why anyone thinks they’re gonna do anything here. That includes being beaten at home by Charlton and Blackpool whilst drawing against Accrington and relegated Northampton. Think they’ll get beat again personally. First goal is crucial, if they concede they’ll absolutely collapse imo.

Of course they were never going to get punished, that’s why they did it in the first place because they knew they’d get away with it. They should all get points deductions and banned from Europe for at least a season. If a breakaway league was set up by the other 14 clubs, they’d be hauled over the coals. Mad how out of touch ‘top 6’ fans are with football. Unfair on the fans Aye. Newcastle, Bolton, Wigan, Blackpool, Derby, Hull, Wimbledon, Swindon, Leyton Orient, Portsmouth, Leeds, mackems and Blackburn fans* all deserved the utter shit they’ve been dragged through during the last 10+ years. Fuck off you bunch of entitled tossers. *plenty more too, these are just the ones off the top of my head.

I can’t foresee a scenario where the PL give in and basically admit to bring wrong/corrupt. Or a scenario where they have cocked up and left themselves wide open to a case like this being successful. The only hope for the takeover imo (as journalists have said) is a positive outcome through arbitration. Either settling it outside of the process through Saudi’s taking action on piracy, or the unlikely event of arbitration going our way. At least it appears to be nearing a conclusion, one way or the other. Hopefully it goes our way but I just can’t see it.

The football version of Katie Hopkins. Get clicks and bites by sprouting their bullshit opinion. People can’t help themselves but bite, give them attention and therefore keep them in the public domain. If people just ignored them and refused to engage, they’ve get dropped.

Thanks fellas Nice to know I’m not ‘universally’ hated. Maybe just hated

Universally hated. You could simply block me if you get this emotional over the most straightforward posts.